Word: basements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senate side of the Capitol building, the ladies in the basement cafeteria had posted up a color printout with pictures of the new Senators so everyone would recognize them if they stopped in for coffee. Upstairs in the halls off the Senate floor, the eager new members - there are nine of them in the Senate, all Democrats - hugged each other, their senior colleagues, family, staff and the occasional bemused passerby...
...Then there were the humiliations some had to endure. The press people for the former House majority whip, and now minority whip, Roy Blunt, used to occupy comfy, spacious digs on one of the Capitol's high floors. This week they found themselves unpacking boxes in a windowless basement room with half a dozen carrels crammed into it and low, buzzing fluorescent light setting an appropriately somber tone for their downfall. Denny Hastert, the hulking former Speaker of the House, shuffled jovially through the halls, no longer second in line for the presidency, with a sharply diminished security staff...
Sollors says that part of the appeal of a cabaret in economically-depressed German cities was its low production costs. “All you need is a basement and a few chairs,” Sollors says...
...birds sometimes, so I thought it would sound like Björk. They do not sound like Björk :( 5. “Hell Hath No Fury” by Clipse—Ever since the Women’s Center brought free pens and knitting to Canaday basement, I’ve started to reconsider my misguided post-feminism. As a campus leader, I should spend my time encouraging women to run for the UC, and protesting a male-dominated faculty, not listening to misogynistic hip-hop with uncomfortable synth beats. 143 I love my DG sisters...
...easy to accuse Harvard’s entire student body of being overly consumed with petty, ivory tower politics and personal advancement. After spending two hours at the entirely student-run Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (nicknamed UniLu as a result of it being situated in the basement of the University Lutheran Church) this past Saturday, it has become evident to me just how unfair such an accusation...